In its continuing effort to remake itself into a modern web company, Yahoo announced Wednesday that it was selling over two dozen domain names it has no use for, including a set of generic web addresses that includes Sandwich.com, Crackers.com and Sled.com.

Starting Thursday, Yahoo is putting 29 old domains on the auction block, with the opening bids on some set as high as $50,000. The most expensive name, AV.com, will start at over $1 million and is sure to sell for many times that amount.

“When you’re a company that’s been around as long as Yahoo, there are lots of fun things that you stumble across. This year, we found a huge list of domain names that the company has owned for quite some time,” the company wrote on its official Tumblr blog. “As we discussed what to do with them, it became obvious that it was time to set them free… back into the wild of the Internet.”

Some of the best ones:

webcal.com

dotbank.com

policescanner.com

jockeys.com

webserver.com

trustory.com

raging.com

blogsport.com

airtrafficcontrol.com

religious.net

transmissions.com

cursed.com

finalcountdown.com

cyberjokes.com

While it might seem strange for a web giant like Yahoo to have such bland domain names, it hearkens back to an earlier Internet when typing the name of what you were looking for in the address bar and appending a “.com” was how many people found what they needed. Before Google tamed the Internet, most websites lived and died based on their domain names, with generic dot-coms comprising the most valuable digital real estate.

That all changed in the last five to 10 years when odd names like Google, Facebook and Twitter became commonly known — in fact, having memorable names probably made them more successful than search.com or socialnetwork.net ever could have.

Besides, what kind of service could Yahoo possibly have had in mind when it bought Cyber Jokes?